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Updated: June 1, 2025
The family talked of little else at their various dinner-tables for weeks to come. Of all Ruth's vagaries this seemed the vaguest and most mystifying. Oliver's apartment is really quite awful, disorderly, crowded, incongruous. It contains a specimen of every kind of furniture since the period of hair-cloth down to mission cast-offs from the homes of Oliver's more fortunate brothers and sisters.
She felt suddenly tired of cast-offs, of compromise, of all the other shabby adjustments of genteel poverty. And by the time she reached the office of the Falcon Insurance Company her soul was seething with a curious and unreasonable revolt. The feminine office force seemed seething also, but with an impersonal, quivering excitement. Nellie Whitehead had been dismissed!
The question is whether to reveal to you now where it was that Josie Fifer reigned thus, queen of the cast-offs; or to take you back to the days that led up to her being there the days when she was José Fyfer on the programme. Her domain was the storage warehouse of Hahn & Lohman, as you may have guessed.
And how in a little while must these have looked, like old cast-offs, indeed, and I looked so for wearing them! What a tawdry figure she makes! And how well that garb becomes her poor parents' circumstances! And how would they look upon me, thought I to myself, when they should come to be threadbare and worn out?
The boy was beginning to feel a subtle weakening in their presence. His fierce barbarism softened, and he began to think of taking one. But he put it aside as a weakness this giving of ponies for these white men's cast-offs. That thought was unworthy of him a trade was not his wild way of possessing things.
Your aunt has not sent me a box of her cast-offs for over a year, and I think it is extremely unkind of her." "But you have not told me yet where you slept last night, dear Mrs. Aylmer," said Kitty. "Well, dear, if you must know, I slept here in this room. I slept on the dining-table.
By the end of his first year in the flat, the little suit he had been wearing when he came was in utter rags. Big Tom had bought him no new suit, declaring that he could not afford it. So Johnnie had had to decide between putting on some of Cis's old garments or Barber's mammoth cast-offs. He chose the latter, which Mrs. Kukor offered to alter, but Barber refused her help.
As noiselessly as a cat the child stole out of bed, and fumbled around for his clothes his own clothes; the familiar rags and tatters which, at Jefferson's command, he had removed outside the bathroom door, and from which he had never before been separated since they came into his possession, the "cast-offs" of a bigger companion. Of course he did not find them.
The suit had grown a bit shabby for Los Angeles, and Mary V's mother believed that town cast-offs should be worn out on the ranch. Mary V did not mind. She hated the cumbersome riding skirts of the range girl proper, and much preferred the breeches. When she had put a little distance between herself and the ranch, she usually removed the coat and tied it in a roll behind the cantle.
He could not have told you why, but he was conscious that it aggrieved him to find her so intimate with this pretty young fellow, who was partly clad, as it appeared, in the cast-offs of a nobleman. He could not guess her station, but the speech that reached him was cultured in tone and word. He strained to listen. "I shall know no peace, Leandre, until we are safely wedded," she was saying.
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